Rainbow District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Sudbury, Ontario · BN 872267091RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($278,509,297) as filed with the CRA.
Rainbow District School Board is a charitable organization based in Sudbury, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $281M in revenue and $278.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $38K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 2,283 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Provide quality education at the elementary and secondary level including full day junior and senior kindergarten and adult day school. Operate 38 schools in the districts of Sudbury Espanola and Manitoulin. Provide French Immersion programs. Administer educational scholarships bursaries and support to educational programs and activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $281M | $278.5M | $267.3M | $5M | — | $28.9M |
| 2023 | $245.6M | $241.3M | $235.4M | — | — | $26.6M |
| 2022 | $231.6M | $229.5M | $224.1M | — | — | $33M |
| 2021 | $217.2M | $212.5M | $207.3M | — | — | $31.2M |
| 2020 | $203.1M | $199.4M | $194.2M | — | — | $26.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $38K from 10 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- The Douglas A. Smith Family Foundation$10K
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$5,100
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,896
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,000
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$1,500
- The Lougheed Foundation$1,000
- Sudbury Finnish Rest Home Society Inc.$500
- Espanola Bible Fellowship$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,283
- Total compensation, all staff$208.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doreen Dewar (trustee); Robert Clement (trustee); Judy Hunda (trustee); Judy Kosmerly (trustee); Anita Gibson (trustee); Linda Debassige (board vice-chair); Lisa Corbiere-Addison (trustee); David Farrow (board chair); Alex McCauley (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rainbow District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872267091RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.